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The HPC Isn't Oak Park's HOA

The HPC Isn't Oak Park's HOA

Nobody elected the Oak Park Historic Preservation Commission. Opponents of new housing in Downtown Oak Park are in a tizzy. The Village Board has voted to allow planning to continue for a new apartment development, disagreeing with the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) in the process. Preservationists feel the board oversteps

Oak Park Housing Myths

Work on local housing politics long enough and you'll start to see the same arguments over and over again. Here's a decoder ring. You could fill a book with the arguments housing opponents use across the nation to oppose new construction. But like just like our

Why Say Yes?

1. Because it's fair. Every Oak Parker knows what the border between Oak Park and Austin means: we're the beneficiaries of generations of anti-Black housing policy. The history of apartment bans in Chicago is the history of redlining and racial steering, and we're long